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USS Grampus, a 2370-ton Tambor class submarine built at Groton, Connecticut, was commissioned in May 1941. She operated in the western Atlantic and Caribbean for the next several months and transferred to the Pacific in December 1941, a few weeks after the United States formally entered World War II. Grampus made her first war patrol, into the central Pacific, in February-April 1942. One large merchant ship was sunk on that patrol, which also included reconnaissance missions to Kwajalein and Wotje Atolls. Her next patrol took her into the Marshall and Caroline Islands, concluding in Australia, where she was based thereafter.
During the rest of 1942 and into January 1943, Grampus completed three more war patrols, which took her to the Philippines and into the Solomon Islands. She left Brisbane, Australia, in mid-February 1943 to begin her sixth patrol, also in the Solomons. Grampus did not return from this mission and was subsequently declared lost with all hands. It is possible that she was sunk by the Japanese destroyers Minegumo and Murasame in a battle fought in the Blackett Strait, near Kolombangara Island, on 5 March 1943, shortly before those enemy ships were sunk in a night action with U.S. cruisers and destroyers.
This page features our only views of USS Grampus (SS-207).
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Photo #: 19-N-23818 USS Grampus (SS-207) Off Groton, Connecticut, during her trials, 26 March 1941. Photographed by her builder, the Electric Boat Company, of Groton. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-23816 USS Grampus (SS-207) Off Groton, Connecticut, while running trials, 26 March 1941. Photographed by her builder, the Electric Boat Company, of Groton. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 605 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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